I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I am being a little tongue-in-cheek.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.